Debian switching to EGLIBC [LWN.net]

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 7, 2009 14:25 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by jordanb
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

The guy fixed a bug in [strfry()] though. Clearly it was important enough to him to do that analysis, and then fix what was wrong. All Drepper had to do is get over himself long enough to apply it.

To be fair, if you read the relevant bug report, you'll see that Mr. Drepper fixed the bug in a different way. He even re-fixed his first implementation after that was discovered to be sub-optimal. So, there should be no complaints here.

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Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 11, 2009 4:31 UTC (Mon) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

the complaint is that no one deserves to be severely ridiculed for simply trying to fix a bug. maybe it's the wrong fix, or is truthfully not a bug, but if the only thing that you can hope to accomplish by filing a bug report is public humiliation then why bother.

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 11, 2009 6:04 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Don't forget rescinding a significant contributor's commit access
(forever) and refusing to explain why. That's happened at least once.